QuickOffice HD 5.0 on the way

By George Wong on 10/24/2011, filed in Home > Tablets

QuickOffice HD 5.0 on the way Great news for QuickOffice HD users with Android or iPad tablets – an update for the office productivity suite (version 5.0) is in the works and it will include with heavy cloud integration as one of its new features.

The new version of QuickOffice HD Android will have features like drag and drop for easy file management, cloud storage integration, support for all Microsoft Office file formats including Office 2010. Document editing has also been improved, with WYSIWYG image editing (i.e. rotation and resizing), real time text formatting and more. The iPad version of QuickOffice HD will feature SharePoint integration and improvement in usability.

QuickOffice basically plans to turn its app suite into “the most cloud-connected office productivity software out there” with the upcoming update. QuickOffice HD 5.0 for Android tablets and the iPad will be arriving sometime in November. Check out a video demonstration of some of its new features:

Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

iPad: the iPad is Apple's tablet computer. While not "invented" by Apple (the newton was arguably a PDA), the iPad has re-ignited the tablet format as it appeared at the right time, with the right hardware and apps. the first iPad was launched on April 2010. It was followed by the iPad 2 in March 2011 and a new iPad (gen 3) in 2012.

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